Exploitation (Warp, Botting, etc.)

[Helli]

I know on my server (Diabolos) the number of bots just totally outweighs the ability to report them all. In just one smallish area, there was 30+ bots. Many were underground most the time just teleporting from node to node. I reported several, but after an hour of filling out cheat reports gave up. I don't want to spend my entire time online just trying to report these bots using the slow, cumbersome tools we have.
Just one GM in the area could have banned them all in less time than it took me to report those I did.

[Verrilee]

I'm curious about why MMOs don't use players anymore. It was a lot of fun being a Guide and although there was a little bit of exploitation, it wasn't bad. Nothing as bad as these hacks and exploits going on now. Of course, guides couldn't suspend/ban people - but we would go observe after receiving a report, and if it was true we could escalate it straight to a GM. Plus we could take care of all the standard issues that came in, like stuck players. It saved a lot of time for the GMs and all it cost the company was a few free subs. And doing player events was FUN!